Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Custom Extension

You can now give your AWS AgentCore Agents custom browser extensions to enhance their productivity.

If you have been following me for a while, I am not of the mindset of Stick an LLM in everything and call it AI , but when I see a good fit, I will call it out.

I have built many search engines over the years, often ones that scraped the web for data.

Adding an agent to assist in the web scraping actually can add significant value to help overcome hurdles, extract non-uniform data, and speed up the ingestion process.

What if you wanted to take it to the next level and give your agent an additional set of tools in the browser?

Good news! AWS AgentCore allows you to give your agents access to custom browser extensions.

What can you do with this?

You could give the agent the ability to cross-reference data it finds on the page with an extension.

For my purposes, I could use the Built With Browser Extension all the time to see what technologies people are using for their website.

I could see an agent doing that research for me.

You could use the extension to enhance the agent’s data collection abilities or just keep it on track by forcing constraints on the data collection.

You could take the simple repetitive part of the data collection and hard-code it so it runs cheaper and is less prone to hallucinations/mistakes while still utilizing the creative problem-solving of the agent.

I almost want to start writing another webscraper just so I can play with this tech.

Question for you:

Do you have a use case for this tech? I would love to hear about it.